seminar annoucement

[Adrian Tompkins]

_Thursday 25 March 2021 - h15:00 (UTC+1)** - Zoom_
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*Tamma Carleton
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*"Using economics and big data to measure the costs of climate change"*


_Abstract_

Estimating the global marginal damages caused by emitting a single ton 
of carbon dioxide is central to climate policy. However, current 
measurements of this “social cost of carbon” are based on low-resolution 
structural models that are not empirically calibrated. In this talk, I 
will present a new approach from the Climate Impact Lab that combines 
best-available data, econometrics, and climate science to both update 
the social cost of carbon and provide climate damage estimates for 
individual sectors of the economy at local level. Our results contrast 
starkly with the current estimates of climate damages informing climate 
policy in the US and beyond.

_Bio_

Tamma Carleton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bren School 
of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, 
Santa Barbara. Her research combines economics with datasets and 
methodologies from remote sensing, data science, and climate science to 
quantify how environmental change and economic development shape one 
another. Tamma's current work focuses on climate change, water scarcity, 
and the use of remote sensing for global-scale environmental and 
socioeconomic monitoring. She is an active member of the Climate Impact 
Lab, an interdisciplinary team conducting an empirically-grounded global 
assessment of climate change impacts. Tamma joined the Bren School after 
a postdoc at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. 
She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the 
University of California, Berkeley, MSc.'s in Environmental Change and 
Management as well as Economics for Development from the University of 
Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Lewis & Clark College.


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